CloudEngine S8700 Series Switches

Product Model	CloudEngine S8700-4	CloudEngine S8700-6	CloudEngine S8700-10
Switching Capacity	2Tbps	7.2Tbps	8Tbps
Main Control Board Slots	2	2	2
Service Card Slots	2	4	8
Fan Slots	1	2	2
System Power Supplies	6	6	6
Hybrid Optical-Electrical Access	The forty-eight 10GE hybrid optical-electrical ports on a S8700 board facilitate interconnection with the 10GE optical ports of downstream devices (such as Wi-Fi 6 APs) and offer PoE++ at long distances of 300 m through a hybrid cable 2.0 (traditional: just 100 m).
VXLAN	VXLAN L2 and L3 gateways Centralized and distributed gateways BGP-EVPN Configured through the NETCONF protocol
MACsec	MACsec supported on ports Secure data transmission for hop-by-hop devices
QoS	Traffic classifier technologies from the link layer to the application layer Comprehensive queue scheduling algorithms and congestion control algorithms Multi-level precise scheduling of data flows Hardware-based low-latency queues for multicast packets
IPv6	IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack Multiple tunneling technologies IPv6 static routes, RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP+, and IPv6 IS-IS
NAC	MAC address authentication and 802.1X authentication Policy association and free mobility

Product Model

CloudEngine S8700-4

CloudEngine S8700-6

CloudEngine S8700-10

Switching Capacity

2Tbps

7.2Tbps

8Tbps

Main Control Board Slots

Service Card Slots

Fan Slots

System Power Supplies

Hybrid Optical-Electrical Access

The forty-eight 10GE hybrid optical-electrical ports on a S8700 board facilitate interconnection with the 10GE optical ports of downstream devices (such as Wi-Fi 6 APs) and offer PoE++ at long distances of 300 m through a hybrid cable 2.0 (traditional: just 100 m).

VXLAN

VXLAN L2 and L3 gateways
Centralized and distributed gateways
BGP-EVPN
Configured through the NETCONF protocol

MACsec

MACsec supported on ports
Secure data transmission for hop-by-hop devices

QoS

Traffic classifier technologies from the link layer to the application layer
Comprehensive queue scheduling algorithms and congestion control algorithms
Multi-level precise scheduling of data flows
Hardware-based low-latency queues for multicast packets

IPv6

IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack
Multiple tunneling technologies
IPv6 static routes, RIPng, OSPFv3, BGP+, and IPv6 IS-IS

NAC

MAC address authentication and 802.1X authentication
Policy association and free mobility

Enterprise

Huawei Cloud

Carrier

Consumer

Corporate

CloudEngine S8700
Series Switches